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Engineering Professor Awarded NASA Grant to Study Impacts of Wildfires on California’s Coastline

July 20, 2021
California is known for its beautiful coastline, where the Pacific Ocean meets sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. While many scientists have studied the land or the ocean independently, less is known about the nexus of the two. Now with the help of a $750,000 award from NASA, civil and...

UC Merced Admissions for California Freshmen, Underrepresented Students and Transfers on the Rise

July 20, 2021
Following an unprecedented year the University of California announced that its campuses made record-breaking admissions offers to the fall 2021 incoming class. On top of a record number of transfer applications this year, UC Merced's transfer student admission has risen to 3,087, a 48.4%...

Postdoc Earns Prestigious NIH Fellowship to Expand Prion Disease Research

July 20, 2021
Postdoctoral Scholar Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn was awarded a $205,140 National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NIH-F32) to be distributed over three years. The purpose of the fellowship is to enhance the research training of...

How One Worker Protected Himself from COVID-19

July 19, 2021

UC System Admits Its Largest, Most Diverse Class

July 19, 2021

¡Vamos!: First Cohort to Begin New Bilingual Authorized Teacher Prep Program

July 19, 2021
Nearly 1.2 million students in California are not native English speakers, many coming from Spanish-speaking households. Transitioning to an English-speaking classroom can be difficult for these students, but UC Merced’s Teacher Preparation Program is poised to remedy these challenges with...

UC Celebrates $15 Million Mellon Grant to Support Faculty Diversity

July 16, 2021
The University of California today (July 16) announced the receipt of a $15 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). This funding will help expand the number of PPFP fellowships at UC and establish a program for hiring...

Ceballos Recognized as CoSIDA Academic All-American

July 15, 2021

We're Creating the Conditions for a New Dust Bowl

July 15, 2021

Professor’s Drive to Help the Community Gets Underway for 13th Year

July 15, 2021
To help Merced people in need, Professor Patti LiWang has been leading a diaper and toilet paper drive for the past 12 years. “When we moved here, the recession hit. It was hard for us, a two-income family, so I understood it must be much harder for one- and low-income families,”...

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